Sacramento Valley Charter

Sacramento Valley Charter is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in West Sacramento, California, operated by Sacramento Valley Charter District, with 415 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

Operationally, Sacramento Valley Charter answers to Sacramento Valley Charter District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Sacramento Valley Charter records that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (89%); the rest breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 2% White. By comparison, Yolo County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Sacramento Valley Charter reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Yolo County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Yolo County) shows that median household earnings sit near $91,752, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Yolo County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,820 students), of which Sacramento Valley Charter is one.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Unified Virtual Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sacramento Valley Charter.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, Sacramento Valley Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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